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Show SIX TO ONE AGAINST GERMANS ' y? ORE than half the human race is now ranged in war against the Ger-' IJJ mans. The man strength of the Teutonic forces is outnumbered six to one by their foes. Omit all of India, and the Allies, backed by the United States, still have four times the population to draw upon that stands behind the kaiser. I Subtract all the wealth of all the German fund from the wealth of the United States and there still remains more than fifty billion dollars. American farms grow more than all the farms of Germany, Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria combined. The United States alone can make more steel and all the products of steel than the whole Germanic league. Our mines yield ten times as much gold, far more silver, twice as much lead and many times as much copper as the entire group of Central Powers. Germany's national debt is now nearly, $200 per capita. Ours is only $10. I To pay a year's interest on his share of his nation's debt costs a German Ger-man thirty times as much as it costs an American. William Hohenzollern can no more whip a united world than Napoleon Bonaparte could defeat a united Europe, and it required the latter only one hundred days to throw a bridge from Elba to St Helena. Girard, in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. |